Collection of Robot Quotes
A large collection of robot quotes covering a variety of topics. Robots are part of the future and the future is here.
“Accepting that one day your role might be handled by a robot is a hard pill to swallow. But if we can learn anything from history, it’s that when machines take over workers must learn to adapt, and create new roles for themselves.” ~Thomas Shambler
“The cuteness of domestic robots may make us lower our guard and forget questions of privacy and security.” ~Cherie Lacey
“With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, ‘Oh, let’s build a robot’ and what’s the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That’s so 1950s. We are so past that.” ~Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Some researchers argue that we can seal the machines inside a kind of firewall, using them to answer difficult questions but never allowing them to affect the real world. (Of course, this means giving up on superintelligent robots!) Unfortunately, that plan seems unlikely to work: we have yet to invent a firewall that is secure against ordinary humans, let alone superintelligent machines.” ~Stuart Russell
“We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task. I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?” ~Moshe Vardi
“If Elon Musk is wrong about artificial intelligence and we regulate it who cares. If he is right about AI and we don’t regulate it we will all care.” ~Dave Waters
“The higher the minimum wage goes, the lower the threshold will go for robots to replace humans in many minimum-wage roles.” ~Tom Purcell
“It is difficult to think of a major industry that AI will not transform. This includes healthcare, education, transportation, retail, communications, and agriculture. There are surprisingly clear paths for AI to make a big difference in all of these industries.” ~Andrew Ng
“You take the best and brightest 200 human beings on the planet, you scan their brains and you get robots that to all intents and purposes are indivisible from the humans on which they are based, except a thousand times faster and better.” ~Robin Hanson
“This is nothing. In a few years, that bot will move so fast you’ll need a strobe light to see it. Sweet dreams…” ~Elon Musk
“In addition to doing our jobs at least as well as we do them, intelligent robots will be cheaper, faster, and far more reliable than humans. And they can work 168 hours a week, not just 40. No capitalist in her right mind would continue to employ humans.” ~Kevin Drum
“Next to robots, humans are pretty stupid. Stupid in the sense that they can’t hold the vast quantities of data that their machine counterparts can. So when it comes to humans and robots working together, there’s a clear mismatch in abilities.” ~Hugh Langley
“Man is a robot with defects.” ~Emil Cioran
“If you want to look at this through a utopian lens, the AI Revolution has the potential to free humanity forever from drudgery. In the best-case scenario, a combination of intelligent robots and green energy will provide everyone on Earth with everything they need. But just as the Industrial Revolution caused a lot of short-term pain, so will intelligent robots. While we’re on the road to our Star Trek future, but before we finally get there, the rich are going to get richer–because they own the robots–and the rest of us are going to get poorer because we’ll be out of jobs.” ~Kevin Drum
“The robots of our youths and of our imaginations don’t have to have millions of dollars of incredibly sophisticated hardware and software in them. They can be relatively lightweight dumb devices so long as they’re connected to the power of the cloud.” ~Alec Ross
“Robotics, once the almost exclusive purview of science fiction, is now approaching a point at which it will be capable of dramatic influence over humanity. These advancements are as much a lesson in caution as in the wonder of the human imagination.” ~Nate Church
“You shouldn’t fear immigrants taking your job, you should fear robots.” ~Sead Fadilpasic
“Let’s start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics…. We have: one, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. And three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.” ~Isaac Asimov
“Robotics is a technology that doesn’t inherently have any good or bad effects to it. You could use a hammer to hit a nail, or you can use a hammer to hurt somebody.” ~Shyam Sundar
“Talking about robots used to mean you were talking about the future. The Future is here.” ~Dave Waters
“First machine kicked man’s ass physically, then machine started taking over the left-brain when Deep Blue bested Kasparov in chess, and then finally the machine fully took over the left-brain when Watson beat the great Ken Jennings on Jeopardy. And now these terminators are coming after right-brained activities too–the creative and emotional side of the brain. Pretty soon we’ll all be driving cars with bumper stickers that say, “Robots make better lovers.”” ~Jarod Kintz
“You’ve got to buy the robot, but then relatively little op ex. You can work them 24 hours a day. They aren’t going to join a union or get sick, and they don’t expect a salary.” ~Alec Ross
“Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined.” ~Oren Etzioni
“With an increasing amount of money being pumped into artificial intelligence and robotics and our growing comfort levels with robot interaction, it’s only a matter of time before we will love, marry and have sex with robots…. Once they move and speak and they feel warm, I don’t think there will be any problem for people to relate to them.” ~David Levy
“I know a lot about artificial intelligence, but not as much as it knows about me.” ~Dave Waters
“Digital is the main reason just over half of the companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since the year 2000.” ~Pierre Nanterme, CEO of Accenture
“Robots can be used either to replace or complement human labor. And in the decades ahead, we will see lots of both happening. In some settings, there may be new kinds of jobs for human beings to tend to our increasingly intelligent machines. Or otherwise keep human decision-making in the loop. But it’s generally agreed that the number of such machine-tending jobs will be much smaller than the number of jobs eliminated.” ~Gregory Clay
“The more quotes I read about robots the more I realize the present is the future. Robots aren’t coming, robots are here.” ~Dave Waters
“Technology, through automation and artificial intelligence, is definitely one of the most disruptive sources.” ~Alain Dehaze
“Robot lawyers would make sense given the tricky road we’re inevitably facing when it comes to robotics law and maybe even robot rights. If robots become the subjects of laws and protections, then perhaps they should learn how to navigate the system. Of course, as with everything else, we run the risk of being surpassed in skill and acumen by our robotic counterparts. Although by then, robot judges may be banging gavels and silencing courtrooms, as well as naysayers.” ~Joelle Renstrom
“Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.” ~Oren Etzioni
“Imagine all the times in history when people laughed about inventions being in every home. Automobiles, phones, VCR tapes, computers, cell phones, the Internet, Amazon, Netflix… you get what I am saying. Robots will be in the majority of homes in the not so distant future.” ~Dave Waters
“The questions being raised about sex robots are similar to the conversations about the link between violence in video games or pornography. However, the physicality of a robot brings such questions to a new level as the line between fantasy or reality becomes even more muddled in the subconscious. And even though we know they are machines, it doesn’t take much for us to treat robots as if they are people.” ~Kate Darling
“Until we figure out how to fairly distribute the fruits of robot labor, it will be an era of mass joblessness and mass poverty.” ~Kevin Drum
